A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk II)

[OptionalExtra]

A scrapyard of sorts here, or at least some scrap cars lying in the yard of an old kipper smokehouse, pictured in 1974. The Imp on the trailer is a C-reg, so only about 9 years old. The other Imp on the left, which seems more intact, is an E-reg, so would only be about 7 years old. Not sure whether it’s definitely scrap though - surely the white H-reg Landcrab at the back isn’t?

Anyone know what the car on its side is?

[Dapster]

OptionalExtra said:

Anyone know what the car on its side is?

That's a tough one but my starter for 10 is an ADO16 - pointy tailight housing and those sharp edged rear wings.....


EDIT: The bumper overiders don't line up at the same point and the cut out at the base of the bootlid by the bumper isn't the same. Also didn't they have a spare wheel well on the boot floor?

I don't think I'm right....

Edited by Dapster on Sunday 6th June 23:49

[Escort3500]

I’ll guess BMC Farina - Cambridge/Oxford

[LanceRS]

67Dino said:

Don’t think I’ve shared this before. Taken at a Castle Coombe meet and track day in April 1984.

Being pedantic (it’s PH so someone has to be), judging by the Capri 280 in the photo it must have been taken after 1986.

[Dapster]

LanceRS said:

67Dino said:

Don’t think I’ve shared this before. Taken at a Castle Coombe meet and track day in April 1984.

Being pedantic (it’s PH so someone has to be), judging by the Capri 280 in the photo it must have been taken after 1986.

There are plenty of E reg cars ('87) in the set of pics so more likely April '88.

It's amazing how low the Panteras are - they are dwarfed by the 911s!!

[OptionalExtra]

Escort3500 said:

I’ll guess BMC Farina - Cambridge/Oxford

I think you’re right. The gaps where the taillights should be look right.

There’s another one here that I doubt ever saw the road again - looks like an MG Magnette.

[Notwen]

Escort3500 said:

Enough of the exotica ; back to the more mundane...

Manchester apparently. Date and location unknown..., though I’d guess late fifties judging by the Zephyr and Traveller

Initially I thought it was Hyde road in Gorton, but from that angle the Church tower should have been visible.
A bit of Googling suggests it is Chester road in Stretford, October 1959

[P5BNij]

Is anyone else having trouble seeing images on this page...? I can see the photo that Dapster posted but not the others!

[RicksAlfas]

P5BNij said:

Is anyone else having trouble seeing images on this page...? I can see the photo that Dapster posted but not the others!

I don't think Thumbsnap is behaving this afternoon.

[P5BNij]

Ah thanks - I'll give it a try with this one... a car lot somewhere in the US in the late '60s, I know the red Maser is a 3500GT but what is the Ferrari to the left of it...?

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Is that a TVR far right?

[P5BNij]

Yes it is

[TarquinMX5]

Ferrari, hard to be sure from that angle but early 50s; could be a 212 Inter (minus bumper), a 342 America (minus bumper), a 375 America (minus, you guessed it, bumper). It's difficult to tell without being able to see the side profile or rear and the stickers in the windscreen don't help either.

[Dapster]

P5BNij said:

Ah thanks - I'll give it a try with this one... a car lot somewhere in the US in the late '60s, I know the red Maser is a 3500GT but what is the Ferrari to the left of it...?

Car on the far left is on UK plates! "KTD 679".

[eccles]

Dapster said:

P5BNij said:

Ah thanks - I'll give it a try with this one... a car lot somewhere in the US in the late '60s, I know the red Maser is a 3500GT but what is the Ferrari to the left of it...?

Car on the far left is on UK plates! "KTD 679".

Big old Jag or a Bentley?

[nicanary]

.....and the "Bugatti" is a VW-powered Teal replica.

[52classic]

Third pic of the 'London Scrappies' Do I see a Fiat Strada with a Dolomite front end resting on it?

[67Dino]

Dapster said:

LanceRS said:

67Dino said:

Don’t think I’ve shared this before. Taken at a Castle Coombe meet and track day in April 1984.

Being pedantic (it’s PH so someone has to be), judging by the Capri 280 in the photo it must have been taken after 1986.

There are plenty of E reg cars ('87) in the set of pics so more likely April '88.

It's amazing how low the Panteras are - they are dwarfed by the 911s!!

Thanks for correcting - there was a photo next to it that had that date, but obviously not the same! Have the negs labelled somewhere so will check for certain.

[hidetheelephants]

OptionalExtra said:

A scrapyard of sorts here, or at least some scrap cars lying in the yard of an old kipper smokehouse, pictured in 1974. The Imp on the trailer is a C-reg, so only about 9 years old. The other Imp on the left, which seems more intact, is an E-reg, so would only be about 7 years old. Not sure whether it’s definitely scrap though - surely the white H-reg Landcrab at the back isn’t?

Anyone know what the car on its side is?

Looks BMC Farina, no idea which flavour though.

[RATATTAK]

hidetheelephants said:

Looks BMC Farina, no idea which flavour though.

Agree with Escort - it's the Austin variant.